'No Name Beach,' a sandbar in the Charleston Harbor, could be renamed for a nearby historic site
"No Name Beach," a sandbar that has grown large enough to connect Fort Sumter and James Island at mid tide and low tide could ...
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Fort Sumter National Monument
You probably remember Fort Sumter as the place where the first shot of the Civil War was fired back in 1861. Today, you can see for yourself where all the action happened by taking a ferry to the ...
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The US Civil War
It’s Alan Sked, not Brian Holden Reid, who’s “quite wrong” about the causes of the American Civil War (Letters ... Lincoln hardly “manipulated the Fort Sumter crisis”. He simply refused to cede a ...
Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
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‘Angel of the battlefield’: Fort Wayne Civil War nurse honored at Lindenwood Cemetery
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — In honor of Women’s History Month, local historical society chapters paid tribute to Civil War nurse and Fort Wayne native Helena Wolff at Lindenwood Cemetery on ...
Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.
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Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers hailed from Sea Islands. Beaufort park will tell unsung story
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek ...
How the Union took to the skies in the Civil War
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...